A Man At The Gambling Table

Ruby walked following Lucien who stepped towards the poker table, Lucien tried hard to hold back the strong desire in him. A hunting instinct that makes him want to eat Victor immediately.

"Lucien?" Ruby called him. Lucien turned his head for a moment, looked at Ruby with cold eyes as if he didn't know Ruby.

"My name is Levi, Madam!" He said. The atmosphere in the room became very tense. The people who knew Lucien also didn't seem to believe his confession.

How can there be two people who look so similar like this? Their faces, body postures and even voices sound so similar. For Victor, who was the mastermind behind Lucien's disappearance for two years, he had little faith that this man who looked so much like Lucien, was definitely not the Lucien he knew.

At his death, the assassins sent him a photo of when they buried Lucien in the middle of the forest and it was clear from the photo that Lucien had died from a gunshot to the head. Even three months after the incident, Victor came to the place where Lucien's body was buried and saw his body which had been used up and left bones.

"No, there's no way this guy is Lucien. Lucien died a year ago. His twin? Or maybe this person is his twin? But as far as I know Lucien never had twins, he lived alone. Because it's impossible for this person to be Lucien or someone related to him." Victor thought. This made him uneasy because the aura around the man named Levi Mayr looked very dark.

The look in his eyes was so cold as if he had no soul and how he just walked to the gambling table without knowing who paid him to play. As if he doesn't care about anything or anyone.

Lucien sits at the gambling table with the other jockeys against whom he is fighting. Sebastian came over to warn him something.

"Listen, Levi! Me, Richard and Harry will play in a different room. Jonathan will play with you here. He is very good, even though he is our leader, at this betting table he is still your opponent. Make sure you don't lose first!" Whispered Sebastian. Even though he witnessed how Lucien managed to win all the games since he joined Supernova Revenge. However, Lucien still hasn't met a match for him at the same table as Jonathan and other legendary jockeys.

"That's what you should tell your captain!" Lucien replied. Sebastian nodded before going to a different room with Richard and Harry.

Less than two minutes later, Jonathan came into the room with an annoyed expression on his face, especially when he saw Lucien already sitting casually in his place smoking a cigarette.

"Tch, this jerk!" He cursed angrily. Victor came up to him and it made him realize that something had happened here before he came.

"You're late, Jonathan!"

"Sorry, but there's something I need to take care of first!" Jonathan said while throwing a vicious look at Lucien who didn't care about him at all. He felt irritated and angry at the thought that Lucien did not see him as an opponent worth reckoning with. It doesn't matter if they are in the same group or organization, at the gambling table, they are opponents.

"You know him?" Ask Victor. Even though Jonathan admitted that he knew Lucien, he still couldn't say that they were in the same group because it was like they were exposing their identities indirectly.

"Yeah, I know him! He's just a lousy newcomer!"

"Really? But somehow I feel like he's going to win the 50 million dollars!"

"You've been using my services for a year, Mr. Victor. Have I ever let you down?"

"You must have heard of a gambling legend named Lucky. He won all kinds of games and could even make people who use his services win bets of 100 million dollars. He became the target of millionaires who want to have fun with their wealth."

"I know that story, but all I know is that guy has been missing for a long time!"

"Yes, and it seems unlikely that he'll bounce back just to relive his glorious days as a casino legend."

"You know, Mr. Victor? When I hear about him, I always dream of being able to play at the same table with him. Doing a game to prove who is the greatest between the two of us."

"So, why don't you prove it with that person? He looks so haughty and it makes me sick. I want you to destroy him!"

"I understand, Sir! Your order is my duty!"

"If you win, I'll give you 20 million dollars. How?"

"That's only added 5 million to our deal."

"Okay, 25 million dollars!"

"I receive!"

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Jonathan took his place, directly across from Lucien. After all the players are at the same table, the game begins. Jonathan is so confident because he believes in his abilities.

Lucien played so calmly while smoking the cigarette in his hand. He didn't care if Victor and Ruby kept watching him as if trying to find out who he really was and why his face could be so similar to Lucien's?

It seems they are dissatisfied and can just believe if there are two people who have faces that are so similar. Ruby fiddled with her fingers whenever she felt uneasy, beside her, Victor put his arm around her shoulder tenderly.

"You keep seeing him, do you believe he has nothing to do with Lucien?" Victor whispered right in Ruby's ear.

Ruby shuddered, she didn't know what to say now. She really wanted to not believe that the man at the gambling table was Lucien, her husband who had disappeared a year ago, but her heart said something different, those eyes were clearly Lucien's eyes.

"I don't know! I can't believe he has anything to do with Lucien. But, is face is so similar and it's-"

"Make it hard for you to believe it?"

"I guess-"

Before Ruby finished her words, Victor immediately pulled her chin and kissed her on the lips. Ruby was surprised, but she couldn't refuse. She returned Victor's kiss more aggressively, wrapping her arms around Victor's neck.

They were kissing on the sofa, acting like a couple in love and not caring about the crowd around them. Lucien shifted his eyes for a moment to the place where Victor and Ruby kissed. He didn't budge, he controlled himself as best he could so he wouldn't get out of control.

He was angry, very angry, especially at Ruby. It felt as if he still couldn't believe that Ruby could forget him so quickly. This anger made him start thinking of a beautiful revenge plan.

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